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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

data drive 1 & 2 will mount (seems to be in the same place) but when i click on them they wont let me view folder structure and they dont show up in navigation of drive
it indicates im not owner and cant change permissions

also im not sure how to change mount point / im not sure if they are mounting correctly
as live cd did the mounting

Not sure this is relevant, since this is an old post. Anyway, I had the same problem. And its not completely resolved yet. I did use the live boot option with a disk and did a reinstall, trying to save my old data. This worked to some extent, as I was able to access the section of the hard drive that had my old data. BUT, like you, I had access issues,as the system reported I was not the owner of some of the files. I used the terminal program with the CHOWN command to switch ownership of the files.

if you use sudo chown You -R Oldspot it should allow you to access the files.
In this example, You (equals your name in Linux), -R recursively fixes the whole dir, and Oldspot means the folder that you want to change ownership from. You should probably read the description of chown in the help file before you do this, but it really worked for me. I used Puppy (yet another version of Linux) to copy the files from one segment of my hard drive to another, then I used chown to enable the owner to change from whatever to me (Bob) in my case. The SUDO makes this a super user command so you can get the rights you need to solve this. I had great success with 12.04 on one computer and some complications on another. However, I still like it. Honestly, my main Linux box uses Linux Mint, and it is very stable so I like it very much. Hope you have solved your issues!